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In this report, the various 1D single soliton and multi-soliton solutions of the Sine-Gordon equation are explored. First the topological kink solitons and their properties for the Sine-Gordon, as well as the $\phi^{4}$ model are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-25 Shivani Sickotra

We study theoretically the nonlinear interactions of vector breathers propagating on an unstable wavefield background. As a model, we use the two-component extension of the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation -- the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-11-15 Andrey Gelash , Anton Raskovalov

A general wave model with the cubic nonlinearity is introduced to describe a situation when the linear dispersion relation has three branches, which would intersect in the absence of linear couplings between the three waves. Actually, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Roger Grimshaw , Boris A. Malomed , Georg A. Gottwald

We uncover that, in contrast to the common belief, stable dissipative solitons exist in media with uniform gain in the presence of nonuniform cubic losses, whose local strength grows with coordinate x (in one dimension) faster than |x|. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 Olga V. Borovkova , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

We study discrete solitons in zigzag discrete waveguide arrays with different types of linear mixing between nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor couplings. The waveguide array is constructed from two layers of one-dimensional (1D)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-14 Jinzhou Hu , Shulan Li , Zhaopin Chen , Jiantao Lu , Bin Liu , Yongyao Li

We consider a prototypical dynamical lattice model, namely, the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation on nonsquare lattice geometries. We present a systematic classification of the solutions that arise in principal six-lattice-site and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 K. J. H. Law , P. G. Kevrekidis , V. Koukouloyannis , I. Kourakis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

Prolific interactions of nonlinear waves on a plane-wave background in an erbium-doped fiber system are unveiled, based on explicit coexistence conditions extracting from the general higher-order solution of a coupled nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-21 Liang Duan , Zhan-Ying Yang , Chong Liu , Wen-Li Yang

We employ the generic three-wave system, with the $\chi ^{(2)}$ interaction between two components of the fundamental-frequency (FF) wave and second-harmonic (SH) one, to consider collisions of truncated Airy waves (TAWs) and three-wave…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed

Discrete fundamental and dipole solitons are constructed, in an exact analytical form, in an array of linear waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, which is composed of two nonlinear waveguides carrying equal gain and…

This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex nonlinear wave patterns supported by purely nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially periodic modulation of the local strength and sign of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

Nonlinear periodic systems, such as photonic crystals and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) loaded into optical lattices, are often described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a sinusoidal potential. Here, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-27 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

In this communication, we examine a nonlinear model with an impurity emulating a bend. We justify the geometric interpretation of the model and connect it with earlier work on models including geometric effects. We focus on both the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 J. Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis

Results of a systematic theoretical study of collisions between moving solitons in a fiber grating are presented. Various outcomes of the collision are identified, the most interesting one being merger of the solitons into a single…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 William C. K. Mak , Boris A. Malomed , Pak L. Chu

The emergence of breathing solitons in mode-locked lasers presents a fundamental challenge for the theoretical modelling of mode locking, with the mechanisms underlying below- and above-threshold breathing solitons, and the origins of their…

The behaviour of solitons in integrable theories is strongly constrained by the integrability of the theory; i.e. by the existence of an infinite number of conserved quantities which these theories are known to possess. One usually expects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Theodora Ioannidou

Soliton solutions are studied for paraxial wave propagation with intensity-dependent dispersion. Although the corresponding Lagrangian density has a singularity, analytical solutions, derived by the pseudo-potential method and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-22 Chun-Yan Lin , Jen-Hsu Chang , Gershon Kurizki , Ray-Kuang Lee

The paper presents soliton-breather models of particles tunneling on the example of Klein-Gordon and Schrodinger equation nonlinear breathers. It is shown that in this case the non-linearity registration should lead to spatial restrictions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-03-28 R. K. Salimov , E. G. Ekomasov

We investigate the properties of discrete breathers in a Bose-Einstein condensate with two- and three-body interactions in optical lattice. In the tight-binding approximation the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with periodic potential for the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kh. Abdullaev , A. Bouketir , A. Messikh , B. A. Umarov

We present a brief overview of the basic concepts of the soliton stability theory and discuss some characteristic examples of the instability-induced soliton dynamics, in application to spatial optical solitons described by the NLS-type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-23 Yuri S. Kivshar , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

By means of the variational method and numerical simulations, we demonstrate the existence of stable 3D nonlinear modes, viz. vortex ``bullets'', in the form of pulsed beams carrying orbital angular momentum, that can self-trap in a 2D…